[EL] Texas congressional redistricting

[Vince Leibowitz]

Quorum Report is now reporting Cong. Redist. Has been added to the call. 

Vince Leibowitz
Principal Consultant
The Dawn Group
DGTexas.com
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On May 31, 2011, at 4:43 PM, "Hugh L. Brady" <brady at bradylawyer.com> wrote:

> I seriously doubt whether it can be said that "the special session was only for matters for which general agreement had been reached during the regular session, so we can't look for the special session to take up any major new proposals" since there wasn't agreement on several of the bills that are being added to call, unless the Governor is referring to general agreement among Republicans and even then, there was GOP disagreement about the so-called "sanctuary cities" issue, which is or will be added to the call, at least if what the Governor's office is telling Senators is true. There is also GOP disagreement about HB 400 and school finance legislation.
> 
> On 5/31/2011 2:56 PM, Jon Roland wrote:
>> 
>> I just got off the phone with Gov. Perry. I asked him about congressional redistricting. He replied that he can (and apparently intends) to add redistricting to the special session call, but that it will happen only after he gets buy-in for a map, presumably from all major factions. In my question I pointed out that if left to the court, the court may decline to draw a new map, saying it can make minor adjustments but not draw a new map with four new districts, leaving Texas with only 32 members of the U.S. House, until the legislature adopts a map for 36 members. His words were, "stay tuned", which one can take to mean he has hopes of reaching an agreement outside formal session. We'll see how that works out.
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>> I sent him my proposal for redistricting, and I also asked him about my proposal for the TSA groping issue. He said it went to the policy office and will be considered. But he also said that the special session was only for matters for which general agreement had been reached during the regular session, so we can't look for the special session to take up any major new proposals.
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>> -- Jon
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